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Alastair’s Place

Personal blog · alastairs-place.net/blogprogrammingculture

Alastair’s Place is a personal blog at alastairs-place.net about programming and culture. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times, most often “Aura: shipping software that was delayed for 4 years because of patent licensing”. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.

Having just written rather a sad piece on my company’s blog, I thought I’d cheer myself up a bit — and explain a few things that have been hugely …